Splash of Red and a Visit from a Turtle :)

Original title for the post: Splash of red and a little visitor.....then I reread it in my head and it sounded like I was announcing getting my monthly friend!  Gross.

After the remodel of the front bathroom, I recently decided that it needed some color and red it was!  I picked up 3 red towels from  Target...they are super soft and bright fire engine red.  However, they suck because the leave red lint all over you when you get out of the shower.  Even after being washed like 10 times!!

I also picked up some vintage badminton rackets at the GeeDub (Goodwill) for 99 cents each, they have the perfect chippy red paint on them and found  home in the potty as well!

find the seahorse art how to here

Then I switched up some art and added this:

The rug before:

I know the green floor in the kitchen is looking a little shabby and not in a shabby chic way :(

The rug after a little painters tape and some paint!

I am totally in love with the mini transformation of this bathroom, while the master bath gets a huge transformation.  Here is the latest pic of the floor...it's ready for tile tonight!

Now for the visit from the turtle..... we are turtle savers here.  We stop our vehicle on the side of the road and always help the turtle to the side of the road he was pointing.  Yes, I have gotten peed on doing this and no, it's not always safe, but we love turtles!  I would have a bumper sticker that said, "I brake for Turtles!"  if I didn't think bumper stickers were grotesque.  

 So, on the last day of school for the girls we were pleasantly surprised to get a visit from this guy on our porch.  Before I could grab the camera he was trying to hide with our concrete turtle Myrtle.

-Make your life beautiful!!

Updated Children's Art Gallery

I rearranged some of the girls art and added some from this school year.  I rehung it at the top of the stairs and up the wall in the stairwell.   I actually had most of the wall done like a week ago, but some of the thrift store frames still had price tags on them and had to be painted black.

Hey, I've been distracted with the bathroom.  :)

Meanwhile in the bathroom:  the floor is being prepped for slate tile!

and my dining room looks like this...........seriously.

well the sink and top are gone now, but I have to refinish the vanity....
maybe I'll start that tonight!  maybe.


-Make your life beautiful!

SUNDAY:

The Girl Creative , The DIY Showoff, Sisters of the Wild West,  The Tattered Tag, Flamingo Toes, Under the Table and Dreaming, I Heart Nap Time

 MONDAY:

Skip To My Lou, Thrifty Decor Chick, C.R.A.F.T., Sew Can Do, Dittle Dattle, Between Naps On the Porch, Homemaker on a Dime, Making the World Cuter

TUESDAY:

Tip Junkie, Type A, A Bowl Full of Lemons, Today's Creative Blog, Funky Polkadot Giraffe,  Strictly Homemade, A Diamond in the Stuff, All Thingz Related, 

Handmade Tuesday

WEDNESDAY:

Blue Cricket Design, Not Just A Housewife, Someday Crafts, Handy Man, Crafty Woman, Sew Much Ado, Organize Your Stuff Now, Seven Thirty Three,
Sugar and Dots, The Mommy Club  

THURSDAY:

My Repurposed Life, Paisley Passions, House of Hepworths, Beyond The Picket Fence, Inspired by Charm, The Shabby Chic Cottage,  Somewhat Simple 

FRIDAY:

Whipperberry, Fingerprints on the Fridge, Miss Mustard Seed Remodelaholic, Chic on a Shoestring Shabby Nest Tidy Mom Little Lucy Lu My Simple HomeLife

SATURDAY:

Funky Junk Interiors, Be Different Act Normal,  Tatertots and Jello, Young and Crafty 

Master Bathroom: Part 1 Demo

I have been working like a mad woman trying to get stuff done when Audrey is sleeping during a nap and when the girls all go to bed.  Her nap is usually around 2 hours and the girls go to bed at 8:30.  Yes, I make my children go to bed before 9 in the summer....it's good for them and it gives Mr. TSL and I some quiet time before we go to bed!!

Anywho, we have a few major projects for this summer.  We are putting down wood flooring in the living and dining room and redoing our Master Bathroom.  Which was straight out of the 80's.  Linoleum floor, golden oak vanity, frame-less builder grade mirror....boring!!

Here is a shot before we moved in:

Now time for some demo:

The best part of this is that the bathroom will be so fantastic when we're done....the worst part, waddling my 6 1/2 month pregnant butt up to the front bathroom to tinkle in the middle of the night!

I didn't get all of the art moved from the dining room yet, I have to paint a bunch of frames and I'll be finishing that up this week too!

I'll keep you updated!!

-Make your life beautiful!!

Gettin' to it!

Today is the first day of summer for me!!  I am done babysitting for the summer!  Which means I can get after some projects I have been planning!

Today, I will move the kids art gallery wall up to the top of the stairs.  hopefully, I can get all this done before Audrey goes down for a nap this afternoon....so I'll show you later.

Here is what the wall looked like in the dining room:

Our dining room is extremely narrow, so the pictures get bumped a lot!  Good thing they are movin'!

And up the stairs before:

However, the girls brought in a whole slew of new artwork!  So, we have outgrown the space!



-Make your life beautiful!!

No Ikea, No PB, No West Elm......

All of these and more.  We have no Homegoods, no Ikea, no Pottery Barn, no West Elm..... these things make me sad.  Especially the Ikea one!  They don't always ship the stuff I want and I don't want to drive to another state to pick it up!  It would be different if it were just a few hours, but it's not!!  Stupid Wichita!


HOW AM I SUPPOSE TO GET BY WITH OUT THESE STORES!?!?!?!

You see sometimes I am an impulse buyer.  I have tried to deter this habit.  I now will pick things up, put them in my cart and then put them back later....I want to impulse buy from these stores though and it's so much easier to swipe your debit card than it is to type in the number, the expiration date....by then I have canceled it and the impulse is gone.  boo.

Still working on the living room.....and getting ready to do the back bathroom!

The Sunset Lane's Living Room Board

Today for some reason Pinterest won't let me waist my time....so I found Polyvore!  Suck it Pinterest....I take that back, please don't be mad at me Pinterest.  I'm sorry.  

I did make this today though!  No I don't plan to spend that much on my living room, but I am going to try to find more affordable versions of everything on there!!

The Sunset Lane's Living Room Board by thesunsetlane on polyvore.com

white deer head

I have been lusting after faux deer heads/antlers since Mr. TSL drilled a huge deer with my Durango.  The best part was that he was lecturing me on watching for deer during rutting season and bam!  He KO'd that Mother H!

Anywho, I am all about the cabin look, but the real deer heads and the one's painted to look real totally give me the creeps!  Then I saw the nursery the Katie Bower designed and was in love!!

She bought hers off ebay and sprayed that booger white!!!  LOVE!


So, I bought mine from ebay and he looked like this in the ad!

I sprayed mine with primer and white semi gloss spray paint and hung him over the piano.  Not sure if that's where he'll stay, but I like him a whole lot!  My mom says it's creepy :)

I love the deer head, but I think it needs to stand out a little more.  Once I get the entryway done, some of those decorations will go live there and also to the bookshelf in the corner when it gets done.

I am thinking of something like this on top of the piano:

When the new flooring goes down (maybe I'll learn to take better pictures) it will be much nicer than the crappy carpet.  I still hate the golden oak piano....which I'm not sure what to do about it.  I don't want to paint it...mainly because I'm not excited to have to paint it.  Maybe, I'll suck it up and just do it!



-Make your life beautiful!

SUNDAY:

The Girl Creative , The DIY Showoff, Sisters of the Wild West,  The Tattered Tag, Flamingo Toes, Under the Table and Dreaming, I Heart Nap Time

 MONDAY:

Skip To My Lou, Thrifty Decor Chick, C.R.A.F.T., Sew Can Do, Dittle Dattle, Between Naps On the Porch, Homemaker on a Dime, Making the World Cuter

TUESDAY:

Tip Junkie, Type A, A Bowl Full of Lemons, Today's Creative Blog, Funky Polkadot Giraffe,  Strictly Homemade, A Diamond in the Stuff, All Thingz Related, 

Handmade Tuesday

WEDNESDAY:

Blue Cricket Design, Not Just A Housewife, Someday Crafts, Handy Man, Crafty Woman, Sew Much Ado, Organize Your Stuff Now, Seven Thirty Three,
Sugar and Dots, The Mommy Club  

THURSDAY:

My Repurposed Life, Paisley Passions, House of Hepworths, Beyond The Picket Fence, Inspired by Charm, The Shabby Chic Cottage,  Somewhat Simple 

FRIDAY:

Whipperberry, Fingerprints on the Fridge, Miss Mustard Seed Remodelaholic, Chic on a Shoestring Shabby Nest Tidy Mom Little Lucy Lu My Simple HomeLife

SATURDAY:

Funky Junk Interiors, Be Different Act Normal,  Tatertots and Jello, Young and Crafty